Thrashing-machine



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

H. & G. FRANK.

THRASHING MACHINE.

Patnted Sept. 9, 1884.

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(No Model.)

H. at c. FRANK.

THRASHING MACHINE.

No. 304,816 Patented Sept. 9, 1884.

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HENRY FRANK AND CHARLES FRANK, OF BERRIEN SPRINGS, MICHIGAN.

TH RASHlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,816, dated September 9, 1884.

Application filed May 1, 1884. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY FRANK and CHARLES FRANK, citizens of the United States,residingat Berrien Springs,inthecounty of Berrien and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Band-Gutter and Feeder for Thrashing-lvlachines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to band cutterS and feeders for thrashing-machines; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts,as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a bandcutter and feeder for thrashing-machines embodying our improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on the line was in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the grain-table, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the frame-work of the machine in front of the cylinder.

B designates the feed-table, which consists of a frame, 0, secured by hinged brace-rods D and pivoted legs E to one side of the machine, and resting in a recess, F, in the upper edge of one of the side walls of the frame of the machine, and projecting inwardly nearly to the band-cutter table G. The feed-table frame is provided with two shafts, H and I, journaled in the side rails of the frame, near opposite ends thereof, and carrying flanged spools I 1, over which an endless slat belt, K, runs, to carry the bundles from the feed -table to the bandcutter table G. The latter table consists of two shafts, L L,

40 journaled in the side walls of the frame of the machine, and provided with double spools M M, carrying two endless slat belts, N N, over the two boards 0 0, between which boards and endless slat belts N N the toothed cutter P revolves, being fixed to a shaft, Q.

1 At each side of the band-cutter table is an are also connected by abelt.

are being cut, and to guide the grain to the spreader S in front of the band-cutter table.

The spreader S consists of a shaft, S, journaled in the side walls of the frame of the machine, and provided with a spirally-flanged spool or double screw, S, the spiral commencing at the center and running to opposite ends of the spool.

Instead of having doubleboards and double endless slat belts on the band-cutter table, a single board and single belt may be used, and the rotary cutter-blade may be placed between the band-cutter table and the spreader, as shown in Fig. 6.

The bottom of the frame of the machine, at the point where the mechanism before described is located, is inclined downwardly and forwardly, as are also the bundle-guides and band-cutter table.

The shaft H of the feedtable is provided with a pulley, H. The shaft L of the bandcutter table is provided with pulleys V and V, one on each end. The shaft Q of the toothed cutter P, which traverses only part way across the frame, is provided at its projecting end, under the feeder-table, with a small pulley, V The spreader is provided at each end with a pulley, one being marked WV and the other W. A double pulley, X, is secured to the side wall of the frame nearly over the pulley NV. The pulley V is conneeted by a belt to the pulley V. The pulley H is connected by a belt, Z, passing over the double idlepulley X, to the pulley WV on the spreader-shaft, and the pulleys V and W" The feeding and band-cutting mechanisms are driven by a suitable belt conneeted to them in the usual manner.

This machine will save the labor of two men, and performs the most dangerous part of the work. It is cheap, simple in construction,and is not likely to get out of order.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described band-cutter and feeder, comprising a suitable frame, the inclined band cutter table composed of the endless slat belts, the double boards and double spools on the shafts of said band-cutter table, the roour own we have hereto affixed our signatures tary toothed cutter between the double boards in presence of two witnesses.

and slat belts the bundleuides at the sides of the table, the feed-taiie, hinged brace rods, the pivoted legs, and the double screw spreader in front of the cutter-table, substan- Witnesses: tiaily as specified. B. F. PENNELL, In testimonythat we claim the foregoing as J AGOB BOON. 

